Derrick Boston is an accomplished business leader and attorney with 15+ years of experience as a Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel of fast-paced, deep tech companies.  He has led sophisticated corporate and finance transactions, advised on strategy and corporate development, managed legal matters for international operations (including Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK) and initiated and delivered performance improvement, team building and mentoring.  

As General Counsel of Quantelix Corp., he is responsible for all legal matters, as well as business development and human resources matters.  

He has previously served as Chief Legal Officer of Virgin Orbit Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: VORB), the Richard Branson company, which launched rockets from under the wing of a 747 airplane to take satellites into low-earth orbit.  At Virgin Orbit, he built and led the Legal team from scratch, successfully closed more than $1.5B in debt and equity investments across multiple rounds that funded growth from R&D through to manufacturing and revenue generation, and took the company public.  During his tenure, he also served as Chief Administrative Officer, leading the Information Technology, Enterprise Software, Facilities and Security teams.  Prior to Virgin Orbit, he was EVP, Business Development & General Counsel of Panavision, which rents cameras and lenses for producing movies, TV shows and commercials.  At Panavision, he successfully completed multiple acquisitions, corporate financings and restructurings and managed all the company’s legal matters across its global operations.  He also served as President of Panavision’s Advanced Imaging Group, with P&L responsibility for three Panavision subsidiaries.  

Derrick currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Minority Counsel Program and the Board of Trustees of the Da Vinci Schools.  

A former partner at the law firms Irell & Manella LLP and Guth | Christopher LLP, Derrick received his BA from Harvard University and his JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.